“I don’t believe in God, I believe in Nature” – Seun Kuti

Seun Anikulapo-Kuti, by every measure, is the true son of his father. The youngest son of the late Afrobeat maestro, has been in the news lately for different reasons. If he was not warning the government about removing fuel subsidy, he was demanding they don’t use his grandmother’s face on the proposed N5,000 note. This time around, Seun Kuti, is talking about God. He says he does not believe there is any supernatural being anywhere. “I do not believe in God. I am not a believer of anything supernatural. I don’t believe in God, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Ifa, Ogun, or whatever anybody uses as a reason to explain simple actions of nature. God, to me, is in existence,” he said. For those who were conversant with Fela’s ideologies, you would easily see they share the same opinion about a superior being. Instead,
they choose to believe in Nature and find inspiration from smoking marijuana. “Yes, I do. But I don’t smoke cigarette… I don’t believe any human being has the right to tell nature what to do. Nature believes in the usefulness of marijuana. And I think mankind is pompous. You don’t say earthquake or Tsunami is illegal. So, why should marijuana, an equally natural thing, be illegal, even when earthquakes and Tsunami are killing people” Seun is also the leader of his father’s Egypt 80 band and is currently on tour with them in the UK.